as in reliability
worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence
her dependability as a friend, in good times and bad, is legendary
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as in reliable
worthy of one's trust
seeking a dependable person to look after their summer home in the off-season
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Recent Examples of dependability
Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
But their dynamic still holds the heartfelt care and dependability that only a mom could provide.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
That is 16 years of trial and error, and time spent building a body of work and dependable clients.
—Jennifer Oliver Oconnell, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Clark is a steady presence, but the Bruins have had to navigate the Big Ten without his shooting streaks, defense and dependability.
—Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
But their dynamic still holds the heartfelt care and dependability that only a mom could provide.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
The introduction of the cy-trust framework represents an important step toward building safer and more dependable networks of autonomous systems.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
That is 16 years of trial and error, and time spent building a body of work and dependable clients.
—Jennifer Oliver Oconnell, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dependability
Noun
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Similar designs might help manage heat in electronics, improve energy-efficient building materials, or support small, off-grid power systems where reliability matters more than peak output.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2026
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This camera performs well, and NASA likes tried and true reliability when astronauts travel to space.—
Jennifer Levasseur,
The Conversation,
11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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If nursing is the new reliable path to the middle class, the door is real, but the bottleneck is significant.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Smith acknowledged the exorbitant price to build reliable orbital data centers, which will have an operational life of five to seven years, is its own obstacle.—
Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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As of now, investigators continue to search for answers, and for those responsible.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The robots are responsible for executing precision loading and unloading tasks.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Cities in Texas are expected to make the streets safer, not more deadly.—
Jack Fink,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Play wants safe boundaries as mischievous Mercury conjoins imaginative Neptune in your 5th House of Creativity.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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What had seemed like a good way of chilling out was actually plunging me into a kind of crisis.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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That's all well and good, and that's a huge part of the learning process.—
Bryant Reed,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Dependability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dependability. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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